Microbiological Sciences & Immunology is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #140 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for microbiological sciences & immunology students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 75 master's degrees in microbiological sciences & immunology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to microbiological sciences & immunology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other microbiological sciences & immunology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt microbiological sciences & immunology students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized microbiological sciences & immunology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for microbiological sciences & immunology students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Microbiological Sciences & Immunology Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.
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Drexel University is a great decision for students pursuing a master's degree in microbiological sciences & immunology. Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the microbiology program earn about $72,281 in the first couple years of working.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
by our College Data Analytics Team
